Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Eugene O'Neill - Page 2

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

Curiosity killed the cat.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.